I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR FAIRY TAIL OR THE CHARACTERS RELATED, I DO OWN THIS STORY AND ANY CHARACTER'S I CREATE.
Thanks to those who reviewed, hope to see plenty in this chapter, because after all the people who asked/demanded I continue was high the number of reviews should reflect...if not then blame yourselves if I take longer to update.
Sorry for the long gap but I have been busy with College, I'll update when I can but my future takes priority.
Make sure to check out a new cross-over I just started called "Kidnapped" which is a Naruto and Skyrim crossover, I will be working on that while I work on this.
That being said I will also be putting up chapters of pilot stories I started but never really finished
((Edited))
Chapter 21: Journey to the Games
Visual Power
They see the entrance and are already forced to dodge an attack as a purple stream of energy is fired at them "So my latest challengers have come" they hear a voice, the creäture steps out and like Itachi said it was Humanoid in appearance. With a single horn in the centre of its forehead and two coming down from its jaw it couldn't pass for human, it also had a long Bone like swords coming from its forearms.
"Your days of tormenting this place are done Emissary" Naruto declares going into his 6 paths sage mode "Sasuke cover me" he says and Sasuke nods summoning his Susanoo. "Jinton: Genkai Hakuri no Jutsu" Naruto says firing his Particle Attack at the Creature, his eyes widen when Emissary mimics his attack cancelling it "That the hell!" the shocked blonde yells.
"Susanoo" Sasuke say's as his Susanoo's purple sword slashes at it but the Monster dodges it, "Interesting "..." blood trickles from his left eye "Amaterasu!" he says summoning the black flames but Emissary copies it neutralizing it.
"Why didn't he block Susanoo the same way" Naruto wonders as the Creature summons a Magic Circle over Sasuke "Gravity Change" suddenly a massive amount of force is pressed on Sasukes Susanoo.
Naruto quickly forms the Rabbit, Ox, Dog, and Snake Hand Seals "Yōton: Sekkaigyō no Jutsu" Naruto jumps spitting up the grey liquid and the Creature dodges it. Forming the Dog, Boar, Tiger, Ox, Rat, and Bird "Yōton: Yōkai no Jutsu" he spits up the Lava but Emissary copies it, "So...he can copy our attack once then he is defenceless...and it's the same when he attacks as himself" Naruto bits his lip before smirking "in that case" he says forming the Clone Seal Hand Sign "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu" he says summoning 10 clones.
"So you came to the same conclusion" Sasuke says as his Susanoo disappears and he activates his Wood Sage Mode and forming the Tiger, Dog, and Snake Hand Signs "Moku Bunshin no Jutsu" he says summoning 10 clones "We'll just pound this guy until he's dead" Sasuke says and Naruto nods
"Moku Bunshin no Jutsu" their eyes widen as Emissary creates 20 clones "My power is not that easy to grasp" the monster says clearly smug, "I can learn the abilities of my opponent after seeing it once" he explains and they all begin to glow purple and Susanoo appear around each one
"This just got complicated"
"Never once have I come across beings with the power you posses" Emissary says "But like the rest you are doomed to fade away, only your power's will stay in me" it says almost sounding cocky as its red eyes glowed with a weird pattern.
"Don't get ahead" Sasuke says closing his eyes "You may be able to copy our techniques but that doesn't mean you can beat us with them" he explains, both Naruto and Sasuke spent years honing their techniques for battle. "Katon: Gōka Messhitsu" He jumps into the air exhaling the huge fire attack towards the group of clones.
"I'll add some Wind to power it up" Naruto says forming the Rat, Snake, Horse, and Dog hand seals "Fūton: Shinkūha" Naruto exhales a huge blade of wind which fuses with Sasukes Jutsu causing huge streams of fire to erupt destroying to Wood clones of the Monster.
"Interesting...I was unaware attacks could be used in such a collaboration" Emissary says as the sun begins to rise "I will carry out this strategy tomorrow" it says and vanishes before either can respond.
"Why did it vanish?" Naruto asks "And what did it mean 'I will carry out this strategy tomorrow'..."he asks mimicking the creature's voice.
"If I had to make an educated guess...It will appear again tomorrow to challenge us" Sasuke says crossing his arms, "At least we have time to rest and come up with a strategy" he states.
The two trek down the mountain slower than when they journeyed up with the fatigue of battle finally taking its toll on them. They look around and see that the village is still deserted, "Maybe they did evacuate" Naruto says stopping at what appeared to be a house. The door had come off its hinges which made entering easy, looking around and judging by the amount of dust in the house this particular building has not been used for years. Naruto finds a picture and wipes away the dust, he sees a grinning boy not much older that Natsumi, and he has spiked blonde hair and pale skin and dark blue eyes.
"This kid looks like me" Naruto says with a smile, in the picture stood the boy's parents on each side both glancing at the boy with a loving smile "I wonder where he is now" Naruto says and Sasuke shrugs.
"Hopefully somewhere safe with his parents" The Uchiha says in a distant tone, he hears Naruto place the frame back where he found it "I don't see anything that will give us a clue on what Emissary wants with this town" he says and Naruto nods.
"It doesn't seem fair...why can't there be peace?" Naruto asks and Sasuke glances at his friend "In our world the peace lasted even with us gone" he states.
"You don't know that for sure" Sasuke says "All we know is what Gaara and Shikamaru told us" he explains "But for all you know there could be factions against the peace" he states "Smaller nations worried about losing their culture and being absorbed into bigger nations".
"There is more to it than that!" Naruto growls irritably "During the war everyone worked as a single force to protect everyone" the blonde says.
"When the weak are faced with extinction they will band together in order to survive" Sasuke says rather cynically, "But once the threat passes those who survive will try to improve their position of superiority" he adds. "I told you this at the Valley" he turns to face the blonde "So long as divided governments rule there will always be conflict".
"Let's just stop this back and forth argument" Naruto says and Sasuke nods, since their battle at the Valley the two never spoke about why they fought. Only a few people knew about their fight after sealing Kaguya, those people being Sakura and Kakashi.
"I believe our best bet is to rely only on the moves we used before" Sasuke says "If we go overboard and use our most powerful attacks and this thing copies them and beats us then the world will be in danger" he explains
"But if we hold back, we could die anyway" Naruto counters "I say we break out my full Six paths power and see how long he lasts" the blonde smirks...he noticed Sasuke expression become more serious. "Or we could do you your thing" he raises his hands leaning away from the Uchiha...
Sasuke shakes his head "Either way I'd rather have this thing killed soon, I want to train my own way" he says and Naruto nods "To be sent out on such a long Mission right after returning" he sighs, "Look- against my better judgement I need to talk to you...about relationships" he says and Naruto smirks. Erza and I...did the deed" he says and Naruto nods "But we never really confirmed our relationship" he pauses "OK we decided it would be better if we focused on our Guilds but"
"That's not what you want" Naruto finishes "Man sometimes in life you just have to jump and hope" Naruto says "Like when I asked out Sakura, I knew her heart belonged to you but I kept asking and hoping" he explains and Sasuke looks down...Sakura really loved him and he treated her like something to use and throw away, no wonder he felt like he didn't deserve Erza. "Your cautious nature won't work, you need to risk getting hurt otherwise nothing can happen" he explains "But maybe we should rest and recharge, kill this monster and go home" the blonde smirks.
Meanwhile
"Man, So...-yawn- tired" Shikamaru says sitting back on the train as Gaara sighs looking out the window, it will be interesting to see how much Naruto and Sasuke have improved by the time the games begin.
"Is this seat taken?" Shikamaru opens an eye to see a young woman looking at him with a serious expression. The woman had a noticeably large-busted woman, with long, straight black hair that falls to the middle of her back. It is cut in the traditional Japanese "princess style." She wears an elaborate blazer with gold lining, and a large collar, which is open and revealed a collared shirt and red tie underneath. The cuffs of this jacket are tucked into a pair of white wrist-high gloves. On her legs, Kagura wears a pair of black tights, which are tucked into a pair of knee-high boots and sit under a short white frilled skirt. Kagura also wears a white headband with a white ribbon tied at the middle in a bow, pointing straight up.
"Yes" was the Lazy reply Shikamaru gave before closing his eye, feeling the cold stare and with an annoyed Grunt Shikamaru sits up freeing the seat as the Woman sits down thinking he might change his mind.
"Thank you" she say's as her cloaked friend sits beside an absent-minded Gaara "Milliana, Once we return to the Guild we can resume your training" she say's to the cloaked girl, she glances at the Gourd on the ground and sees the Tús Nua Guild mark "You two are from that Guild in the Danketsu" she says and the two guys nod without giving it much effort.
"And you guys are from Mermaid Heel" Shikamaru says absentmindedly and the two suddenly tense up "I saw your Guild mark when you sat down" he elaborates his reason for knowing "I take it you will be competing in the Games this year?" he asks and the cloaked girl lowers her hood revealing her face to the two.
"That's right and we intend on winning" Milliana declares loudly fist pumping the air "Sabertooth, Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, Fairy Tail, Quatro Cerberus and Tús Nua are fighting for second" she smirks.
"So you have someone in your Guild Stronger that Jura?" Gaara asks, while like the others had held back never relying on their Tailed Beasts power on jobs so they wouldn't attract unwanted attention, they are still considered S-Class level however Jura would be the strongest competitor on paper"
"Why is he competing this year?" Milliana asks, for every other competition in the past Lamia would finish second without Jura or Lyon entering but if they were entering then Lamia Scale would be the favourites...but then ONLY on paper.
"So the rumours are saying" Gaara says "And if they are true I wouldn't be surprised if they win" he adds "However I can picture us losing either" he smirks and Shikamaru has a small smirk but the girls can't see it. Now that Sasuke and Naruto would be competing their victory was pretty much guaranteed but even without them they had a strong team with Erik, Sorano, himself, Shikamaru and Meredy.
"Well Kaguya will beat them all" Milliana says in a confident tone as her companion's facial expression remains calm without emotion.
"Well we will see if that's true at the games" Shikamaru says standing up along with Gaara as they near their stop "See you then Mermaid Heel" Gaara finishes as they depart the train...
"We need to be careful around them Milliana, they are from a different world and more powerful than they let on" Kaguya explains "And they failed to include Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha who were famous for being the strongest members of Fairy Tail" she continues.
"They were strong but...that was seven years ago" Milliana says, she fought against the duo alongside Simon, Wally and Shô. "The world has moved on" she says but isn't sure is she even believes herself, after all Sasuke defeated Jellal and Naruto destroyed the entire Dark Guild in a single attack.
"For now we will train hard" Kaguya says since there is no point worry about something they were unsure about.
Two weeks later
For two weeks Naruto and Sasuke fought this monster with little change, each time they attacked it would mimic their attacks and cancel them out, even Taijutsu was useless for the most part since its body was as tough as steel and they did more damage to themselves. It was the end of their fourteenth battle with Emissary, one thing they learned was it would vanish at dawn as its powers faded during the day.
"Man" Naruto pants out "Your way is getting us nowhere!" he says slumping to the ground on his back while the Uchiha fell to a knee, he knew Naruto was right and they needed to go all out if they wanted to beat it...either way tonight would be the last battle.
"OK but we both need our Six paths power" Sasuke says "How did you awaken yours again?" he asks and Naruto thinks back to the time on Tenrou.
"Mirajane and the others were about to die...Kurama's power wasn't enough so I just forced it out" Naruto replies, his answer wasn't what Sasuke wanted and the irritated look proved it. "I really don't know...I just used it" he finishes.
"Maybe I need to store Chakra into my left eye" he says aloud, he gets into a meditative position and begins to focus his chakra into his eye...the process would be slow but it was the only thing he could think of.
"Well I'm going to look around some more...maybe there is a clue we missed" Naruto says and gets no reply from Sasuke. As he walked he began to wonder about how he and Sasuke could use multiple Kekkei Genkai, Sasuke had Wood Release, Boil Release, Storm Release and Blaze Release. While he had, Dust Release and Lava Release, while he also had Kurama and Sage/Six paths Sage modes he wondered why Sasuke got more Kekkei Genkai than him.
"The only thing that stands out on this monster is his red eyes" Naruto thinks as he wanders around the last few places they fought the monster and the cave where it spawns before each fight, nothing was different about the cave, empty with a magic circle on the floor. Tempted to destroy it again but didn't since it plays no part in Emissaries as the he and Sasuke have destroyed it a few times but it seems this symbol appears when the creature summons itself... "A summoning!" he realizes running off to get Sasuke.
Sasuke gave up on trying to focus his chakra since nothing changed so perhaps he would awaken his power when he really needed it like Naruto...speaking of Naruto.
"Sasuke!" Naruto yells running back "I think I figured something out" he states and Sasuke glances at him "Emissary, it's a summoning" he says and Sasukes eyes widen slightly "Let's go to the cave I have a theory" he says and leads the Uchiha to the cave.
Sasuke walks in first, seeing the circle looks around "Sharingan" he activates his Dojutsu and his eyes widen. "I-I don't believe it!" he says, like the stone tablet in the Uchiha shrine covering the cave back wall was a script or a sentence.
"Face where you can be North and see south" Sasuke reads out "A riddle" he muses "Hmm the peak" he says looking up, the cave was about half way up the mountain road and to the right was the perfect spot for battling Emissary...all to convenient, like it was prepared by someone else. "Let's go" Sasuke says
"Huh...H-Hey wait" Naruto pauses before giving chase to Sasuke
Meanwhile
Itachi looked out the window of his office at the Guild hall, a month had passed since Naruto and Sasuke left on the decade quest. He half expected them to burst in a week ago claiming it was too easy but a month with no contact...he was feeling nervous.
His Daughter was working away with a drawing for school, in the drawing it had her, Ultear and himself holding hands while Sasuke had his arms crossed and was currently frowning like he didn't want to be there. Despite her age she could perfectly draw at a photograph level, "Papa I'm hungry" she says putting her pen.
"What do you want?" He asks leaning forward on his desk, "Sweets!" she yells and Itachi puts on his "Daddy" face which makes her pout "Something healthy" she says in a more deflated tone. "How about Ramen?" he offers and her eyes light up, this was Itachi's method of getting her to eat proper food, first she would ask for sweets and he would give her the daddy look, second she would ask for something healthy even though she didn't want it, and finally he would suggest a proper meal with un-healthy and healthy mixed together.
"Get home soon...you two"
_Sasuke and Naruto_
"Man this Mountain is higher than it looks" Naruto says looking down at the clouds they hand past and could still not see the top, "Wouldn't it be easier to fly up?" he asks and Sasuke shakes his head.
"I don't want to be caught off Guard flying on an eagle" Sasuke says with a tired grunt "Just keep walking" he says and Naruto groans, after 20 minutes of walking the two make it to the top...as the sun begins to set...or so they thought.
"So...what! ...Now" Naruto pauses when he sees a dark haired man sitting on the ground. He is wearing a high-collared black and tan robes with gold trim, along with a large, flowing white toga draped around his torso, he also wears a circle-shaped necklace.
"Hello, my name is Zeref" he introduces himself and the duo stare with shocked expressions "I'm glad I finally get to meet the two of you" he says standing up.
"So all this was just for the chance to meet us?" Sasuke asks and Zeref nods "Why not simply go to the cave and wait? Why bring us up here?" he asks and the Dark mage smile eerily.
"Because up here is the best place for me to ask my question" he replies and Naruto steps forward
"And what question is that?" he asks and Zeref glances over his shoulder at two cave entrances.
"It is more a choice" he says "The cave on the right leads down the Mountain to the docks he says confusing them, there was no cave near the docks. "The other..." he grins
"Leads to Konoha"
The End
Sorry for the long gap but I was very busy with College and just couldn't bring myself to write, I hope you like it and I hope I can update a little faster.
In the next chapter Naruto and Sasuke make a choice that will affect the future of Fiore...but will it be good or bad.
Make sure to check out a new cross-over I just started called "Kidnapped" which is a Naruto and Skyrim crossover, I will be working on that while I work on this.
Till Next Time
~DoTheBartMan